This post discusses the differences between the DBus interface in GNOME Shell 3.6 and GNOME Shell 3.4. I also demonstrate how to use some of the new methods provided to remove an installed extension, to download and install an extension from extensions.gnome.org, and how to flash your screen.
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Udisks is a means of enumerating disk and storage devices on Linux platforms and performing various operations on them. This post describes the technology behind udisks, the history of udisks, how to monitor udisks events and some simple operations you can do using udisks. Earlier this year I wrote a number of posts about monitoring and interacting with D-Bus using shell scripts. In this post I look at using Ruby to monitor and interact with D-Bus enabled applications. Monitoring D-Bus messages is important for both activation and debugging purposes. In this post I examine how to monitor and act on such messages using command line tools. Tomboy is an open source GNOME desktop note-taking application which is written in C# and utilizing the Mono runtime, Gtk# and the GtkSpell spell-checker. The actual release of Tomboy which comes with Fedora 10 is version 0.12.0. This includes a comprehensive D-Bus interface which makes it possible to create, modify and display Tomcat notes from your shell scripts. This post provides an overview of the available D-Bus methods and includes a number of examples for you to experiment with. See my previous post on D-Bus scripting if you are unfamilar with the basic concepts of D-Bus scripting. First we will |
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